As a result of Abbeys transplant she immediately came out of surgery as a diabetic. During her surgery one of the organs they removed was her pancreas. The pancreas does two big things for the body. First is it produces fluids to help digest foods. Second it produces insulin. With the digestive portion we are able to give her a medication to help her stomach break down food. The insulin part is a little more tricky. Within the procedure they take out as many islet cells (cells that produce insulin) they can and transplant them into her liver. The goal with that is the hope that her liver will start producing the insulin her body will need. In the mean time and until we know how her body will take her cells she is a type 3c diabetic. Basically a type 1 but not because on an autoimmune condition. Sam and I have been sitting through 1-3hr long classes this past week learning all the things we need to know about diabetes and managing Abbeys when we get home. She will wear both a continuous glucose monitor and an insulin pump. We are already seeing a decrease in her daily insulin needs which is a great sign that her islet cells are starting to wake up and produce a little bit of insulin. We do know know how long she will need her pump and monitor is could be 3 months or it could be 5 years. Abbey is very good at being a nontypical patient so we will just have to see what Abbeys body chooses to do.